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sowasred2012
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Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 662 Location: London, UK
It can't have been going for more than a day, so I'll be surprised if that takes six days to fully reveal.
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:29 am
chippy
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 788 Location: Leeds, UK
This is a screenshot of the "whoaa, thats new" information:
(Looking at the page, it appears to ask for an update and on the basis of that response loads up the image every minute - so I think it may well change from hour to hour, if not from day to day) I'll attach another screenshot if I notice it change
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:17 am
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catherwood
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 3368 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
I never would have noticed that if you hadn't said to look for it -- it's "below the fold" on my standard browser window. (I run at 1280x800 screen resolution)
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:28 am
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6775 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
hehe I love how so many of us ARGers missed a simple thing as an enormous scrollable region on the main page of viral countdown.
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:30 am
Euchre
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Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 3338
Actually I had noticed the extra page length, but there was most definitely nothing there earlier. I figured it wouldn't be used until the countdown was done, since upon checking the source earlier there wasn't content hidden in the extra space - at least not HTML content. That are below is Flash, part of the same object as above. I also notice that about every minute it's loading a new image, incremented a number up. As of now it's on 909.
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:05 am
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1128
Becoming clearer "bit by bit"
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:26 am
chippy
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 788 Location: Leeds, UK
indeed, it is getting clearer. heres 972 see this earlier screenshot for comparison
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:58 am
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6775 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
ooo, they's getting good in their hax0r-blocking.
technical/exploratory-hacking info below (no spoilers discovered, only impressive security =)
the flash makes a request which prepares the currently visible message image for download, then follows with a request to retrieve that image, at which time that specific image request becomes invalid. So you can't spoof the request to get an image that's not ready yet, you can only get the 'current' (based on server time) image, after requestng it in the same immediate session, once per request.
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:59 am
sowasred2012
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Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 662 Location: London, UK
It says something about Tron's pull that it can make me watch a bunch of text slowly reveal for FIVE BLOODY HOURS.
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:09 am
MOVIELORD101
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Joined: 04 Aug 2009 Posts: 854
I think I've figured it out! IT'S A LIST OF CITIES AND LOCATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE SCAVENGER HUNT!!!! Hint: Look where it says "N Yo". I think it's supposed to say "NEW YORK"!!!
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:23 pm
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Foxeris
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Joined: 01 Feb 2010 Posts: 38
It's interesting watching how the letters unjumble themselves. Even money says that it ends with "END OF LINE" being Tron and all.
Hum... it almost looks like the MCP is pulling itself back together...
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:26 pm
MOVIELORD101
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Joined: 04 Aug 2009 Posts: 854
Foxeris wrote:
It's interesting watching how the letters unjumble themselves. Even money says that it ends with "END OF LINE" being Tron and all.
Hum... it almost looks like the MCP is pulling itself back together...
Either it's a list of cities for something or directions to a location!
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:27 pm
sowasred2012
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Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 662 Location: London, UK
MOVIELORD101 wrote:
I think I've figured it out! IT'S A LIST OF CITIES AND LOCATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE SCAVENGER HUNT!!!! Hint: Look where it says "N Yo". I think it's supposed to say "NEW YORK"!!!
That's not a bad theory - I guess the letters after that might spell out Chicago?
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:28 pm
MOVIELORD101
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Joined: 04 Aug 2009 Posts: 854
sowasred2012 wrote:
MOVIELORD101 wrote:
I think I've figured it out! IT'S A LIST OF CITIES AND LOCATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE SCAVENGER HUNT!!!! Hint: Look where it says "N Yo". I think it's supposed to say "NEW YORK"!!!
That's not a bad theory - I guess the letters after that might spell out Chicago?
Yup, just spotted it. You're probably right about that. Wonder what'll be happening at these locations?
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:29 pm
NickButler
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Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 86
I'm not convinced it's locations. I'm leaning more towards a message.
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:03 pm
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